San Jose Barracuda’s second-round sequence is ready after opening-round sweep

The San Jose Barracuda swept its best-of-three first-round playoff sequence with the Ontario Reign and can now begin a best-of-five second-round sequence towards the top-seeded Colorado Eagles on Friday at Tech CU Enviornment.

Collin Graf scored a go-ahead aim with 2:18 left within the third interval to assist raise the Barracuda, the Sharks’ AHL affiliate, to a 2-1 win over the Reign on Saturday in Recreation 2 of their opening-round sequence at Crypto.com Enviornment.

“I’m happy for our group,” Barracuda coach John McCarthy mentioned after Saturday’s sport. “That’s a lively locker room in there. They should be really proud of themselves.”

Ahead Anthony Vincent additionally scored, and goalie Yaroslav Askarov made 29 saves for the Barracuda, together with 11 within the third interval.

Askarov made 17 saves in San Jose’s series-opening 2-0 win over Ontario on Thursday for his first AHL playoff shutout.

“Askarov was great, I thought he won the game for us,” McCarthy mentioned.

San Jose was compelled to play a lot of the sport shorthanded as ahead Donovan Houle was hit with the puck within the first interval. Defenseman Luca Cagnoni left the sport late within the second interval after taking a excessive hit however returned within the third interval.

“It was gritty for us because we went down a couple of guys there, a forward and a D,” Graf mentioned. “Being really active on the bench and making sure that we’re all dialed in into who is going on, having short shifts, that helped us win.”

The sixth-seeded Barracuda faces No. 1 Colorado within the Pacific Division semifinals, with video games 1 and a couple of on Friday and Sunday, respectively. The Eagles will host the rest of the sequence, with Recreation 3 on Might 6 and Video games 4 and 5, if mandatory, on Might 7 and 11, respectively.

San Jose went 3-5-0 in its season sequence towards Colorado this season.

AHL Pacific Division semifinals

No. 1 Colorado Eagles vs. No. 6 San Jose Barracuda

(all video games streaming on flohockey.television and the Sharks Audio Community; all instances Pacific)

Recreation 1: Colorado at San Jose, Friday, 7 p.m., Tech CU Enviornment

Recreation 2: Colorado at San Jose, Sunday, 6 p.m., Tech CU Enviornment

Recreation 3: San Jose at Colorado, Might 6, 6:05 p.m., Blue FCU Enviornment

*Recreation 4: San Jose at Colorado, Might 7, 6:05 p.m., Blue FCU Enviornment

*Recreation 5: San Jose at Colorado, Might 11, 2:05 p.m., Blue FCU Enviornment

* if mandatory